Last week, Ben Falk of the PFC Warriors offered a new perspective on the Premier Fantasy Championship standings. We have a lot of whiners in our league, complaining that they've come out on the short end of the stick more often than not this season. Such is life in a Head-to-Head league.

Ben's goal was to uncover which teams have something to complain about (the unlucky) and which should be deathly silent (the lucky). He separated the two by taking team averages, projecting wins and losses over the entire season, and comparing to actual wins and losses.

This exercise got discussions going on the value of a Head-to-Head format in a league that is intended to find the best fantasy player in the world. I have never been a Head-to-Head supporter due to the luck factor. In fact, I am participating in more Head-to-Head leagues this season than I have in all other years of fantasy basketball experience combined. If you want to find the best team in your league, play roto. If you want entertainment, play Head-to-Head.

Which is why I chose Head-to-Head for the PFC. Sure, we might not be able to determine the true best team in this league, but it is at least entertaining to follow. Otherwise, I would have nothing to write about right now. Instead, my column would look something like this...

This week in the PFC, the Portland Trailblazers spent their 19th consecutive week atop the standings. Last week, I wrote that they were up by 15 points. This week, they're up by 14.5. Watch out for the Mavericks!

See you next week!

Boring. The risk of running a roto league for entertainment purposes is that the results can be decided midway through the season. That's great for people like me who want to be rewarded for my dominance. Bad for keeping teams involved and having something to watch from week to week.

Someone made the argument (I have to be honest with you, I can't keep up with the PFC message board to tell you who said it) that an alternative would be to have each team face everyone each week. So, it's effectively a roto Head-to-Head league. No more getting stiffed for having the second best week, facing the team with the best week. Luck gone.

But isn't the luck factor the reason people enjoy Head-to-Head in the first place? Although, one benefit would be that you could also keep your playoff system -- which isn't possible in roto. Although, luck would again rein once the playoffs begin since it makes no sense to have to pit your performance against everyone in the league when you are playing your championship game against one team.

For argument's sake, though, I wanted to perform another exercise and take this a step further. Spreadsheets ready. Let's do this.

I went through and collected each team's total stats for each week. First, let me point out the first flaw in this exercise. You plan for your opponent. In a given week, you may choose an inferior player from the bench to exploit an opponent's weakness. Granted, this doesn't happen as often in a league as deep as the PFC and with a bench two-men deep. Outside of the Trailblazers and a few others, most teams would use the same lineup regardless of whom they are facing.

Anyway, we're going to plug ahead. I need an article and there's no turning back now. Ben's exercise took overall year-to-date team stats, which don't take into consideration game count advantages, injuries, and hot and cold performances from week to week. This was a laborious exercise to say the least. Cut, paste. Cut, paste. I cut and pasted 520 times, to be exact.

Next, I ranked each team in all eight of our categories for each individual week. Yup, that means I also created 18 tabs in my Excel spreadsheet. This is a project. I had better get an "A" for this.

Instead of adding up wins in a single category, I took a short cut. Had to. This would get ridiculous otherwise. Instead of saying Team A had 20 Wins and nine Losses in the Rebounds category for Week 1, I took the team's rank in that category for the week and assigned them a Win if they finished in the top 15 for that week and a Loss if they were in the bottom 15. Simple.

Then I calculated wins and losses for every single week. We're in the middle of Week 19 now, one week from the start of our playoffs.

Our current standings are to the right. Let's take a look at what our standings look like with the "Fair" Head-to-Head method:

Eastern Conference

CENTRAL

W

L

Win %

Indiana Pacers

98

46

.681

Milwaukee Bucks

78

66

.542

Detroit Pistons

66

78

.458

Cleveland Cavaliers

61

83

.424

Chicago Bulls

47

97

.326

ATLANTIC

W

L

Win %

Toronto Raptors

83

61

.576

New Jersey Nets

76

68

.528

Philadelphia 76ers

70

74

.486

Boston Celtics

51

93

.354

New York Knicks

36

108

.250

SOUTHEAST

W

L

Win %

Charlotte Bobcats

101

43

.701

Miami Heat

91

53

.632

Washington Wizards

87

57

.604

Atlanta Hawks

86

58

.597

Orlando Magic

78

66

.542

Western Conference

NORTHWEST

W

L

Win %

Portland Trailblazers

104

40

.722

Utah Jazz

91

53

.632

Denver Nuggets

84

60

.583

Minnesota Timberwolves

73

71

.507

Seattle SuperSonics

68

76

.472

PACIFIC

W

L

Win %

Golden State Warriors

74

70

.514

Los Angeles Clippers

74

70

.514

Sacramento Kings

72

72

.500

Phoenix Suns

70

74

.486

Los Angeles Lakers

59

85

.410

SOUTHWEST

W

L

Win %

Dallas Mavericks

104

40

.722

San Antonio Spurs

76

68

.528

Houston Rockets

69

75

.479

Memphis Grizzlies

58

86

.403

New Orleans/OK Hornets

46

98

.319

First, notice that I do not use ties here. Ties would not be necessary since you are either in the top 15 (a win) or you aren't (a loss). At first glance, there aren't many major changes to our standings. Indiana, Toronto, Portland and Dallas remain in first place. Charlotte and Miami swap first and second in the Atlantic. The Pacific gets turned on its head, but that division is ridiculous to begin with.

Let's take it a step further. That's right, we'll finish this thing running. Now, compare the actual winning percentages to the adjusted percentages based on the "Fair" method:

TEAM

Actual Win %

"Fair" Win %

Diff

Indiana Pacers

.528

.681

-.153

Dallas Mavericks

.597

.722

-.125

Los Angeles Clippers

.399

.514

-.115

New Jersey Nets

.424

.528

-.104

San Antonio Spurs

.427

.528

-.101

Charlotte Bobcats

.601

.701

-.101

Golden State Warriors

.420

.514

-.094

Utah Jazz

.576

.632

-.056

Washington Wizards

.549

.604

-.056

Portland Trailblazers

.670

.722

-.052

Milwaukee Bucks

.500

.542

-.042

Sacramento Kings

.462

.500

-.038

Seattle SuperSonics

.455

.472

-.017

Denver Nuggets

.569

.583

-.014

Phoenix Suns

.472

.486

-.014

Atlanta Hawks

.583

.597

-.014

Minnesota Timberwolves

.503

.507

-.003

New York Knicks

.250

.250

.000

Orlando Magic

.542

.542

.000

Memphis Grizzlies

.403

.403

.000

Houston Rockets

.500

.479

.021

Toronto Raptors

.608

.576

.031

Miami Heat

.663

.632

.031

Los Angeles Lakers

.444

.410

.035

Philadelphia 76ers

.535

.486

.049

Chicago Bulls

.378

.326

.052

Cleveland Cavaliers

.490

.424

.066

Detroit Pistons

.524

.458

.066

New Orleans/OK Hornets

.410

.319

.090

Boston Celtics

.517

.354

.163

On the surface, our results aren't much different than Ben's. The unluckiest team is Indiana and the luckiest team is Boston. He also had the Knicks as the second luckiest team whereas my method has them right where they should be. I believe my method is more precise. Why? Because I am the only one who is always right.

One more step further! Now, let's see how it affects our playoff picture. Based on our current league settings, here are the teams set to make the playoffs if the season ended last Sunday.

The difference? Out East, Philadelphia would make the playoffs if the season ended today. With the fair method, it would have been Milwaukee. Out West, there is a much bigger discrepancy. Portland, Dallas, Utah, Denver and Minnesota make it either way. The "fair" method would replace Phoenix, Houston and Sacramento with Golden State, San Antonio and the Clippers.

Too bad for youse guys. Fun to look at, just makes you bang your head against the wall.

Next week, we'll dip back into the PFC talent pool for a playoff preview from PFC Denver's very own Keith Wayland.

AI wouldn't be enough for PFC 76ers to make the playoffs under the "Fair" method.

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